3. TPACK

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Weekly Agenda:

1) Complete social bookmarking assignment from week 2.


If you didn't complete the social bookmarking assignment during week 2, go back to the submission forum and follow the instructions for submitting that part of the assignment.

2) Learn about Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

Scan through the course resources on TPACK until you feel confident that you can answer the following questions.
  1. What are the three main components of TPACK?
  2. What does the word "pedagogy" mean?
  3. How is TPACK different from PK, CK, and TK?
Go to the Video Modeling Database. Use the login id "guest" and leave the password blank. This database contains video examples of teachers modeling technology use in their classrooms. In the database search for one or more of the video examples below.

Lower Elementary
 Upper Elementary
LE#1: Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you see?
LE#2: Old McDonald Had a Farm
LE#3: I Love Spiders
LE#4: Foster’s Fantastic Frog Pond
LE#5: Giving Em the Business
 UE#1: Freezing Point Depression
UE#2: Bookends of War
UE#3: Picture This in Your Community
UE#4: March of the Monarchs
UE#5: WebQuest Solar System Colonization Project

As you watch the video, make sure that you can identify the three aspects of TPACK in the teaching examples.

3) Complete the Copyright and Fair Use Assignment (5 pts)

The [[http://28x.byuipt.net/moodle/mod/lesson/view.php?id=175|Copyright and Fair Use Tutorial and Quiz ]] is a self contained module with 4 quiz questions at the end (worth 5 points). You can take the lesson and quiz as many times as you need to to get full points.

4) Explore some technologies for use with elementary science.

(Note: This science exploration part can be spread over this week and next. The science assignment will be due next week and this exploration prepares you for completing the assignment.)

Science Inquiry (full and/or guided) is one of the most important methods or pedagogies that you can use when teaching children science. The main idea behind science inquiry is that children are DOING science - no just LEARNING ABOUT science.

A page in the course resource section will help you to briefly explore two different kinds of science technologies that your students can use in the elementary classroom.

5) Read the description for the Technology in Science Assignment due next week.


Here is the link to the Technology in Science Assignment Description and Checklist. This assignment is due week 4 - next week.

6) Don't forget to contribute to your PLE and record your attendance.


This week I would like you to contribute 2 things to your PLE:
  1. add at least one link to a resource on copyright and fair use
  2. reflect on what you have learned about fair use for educators and what you understand about TPACK.
TPACK Wiki
Video Modeling Database ID:guest Password: none

You can work on this science tool exploration with another student or on your own.

There are so many free online science resources that kids can use hands-on in doing science.

For lower elementary
 For upper elementary
You want to explore tools that allow students to observe the world in new ways.
 Students can use tools that help them to collect and analyze data about the world around them.


Review the science core curriculum for grades 3-6 or the science integrated into the content core curriculum in grades k-2.


A) Explore 1 of the following simulation resources and how they might be used in your science classroom:

Tool
 Access
 Description
Stellarium
 Download: http://www.stellarium.org/

This tool is also already installed on the computers in the MCKB lab (rm 180)
 Stellarium is a free program that allows you to look at the night sky from anywhere on the earth at any time – even the future and the past. It is great for demonstrating phases of the moon – especially when it is cloudy outside.
Google Earth & Sky
 Download (must be 4.2 or greater): http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

Tours in Google Sky: http://earth.google.com/gallery/kml_listing.html#csky#s1#e10

Web-based version: http://www.google.com/sky/

This program is already installed on the computers in the MCKB lab (rm 180)
 The popular tool Google Earth now has a “sky” feature that lets you explore the universe beyond the earth in a similar way to how you can explore the earth’s surface.
Virtual Pond
 The Microbe Zoo: http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/zoo/index.html

A Virtual Pond Dip: http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/index.html
 Both of these sites can be used hands-on by kids to explore and learn about micro-organisms.
World Wind
 Program Download: http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
 This is a free 3D interactive real-time astronomy tool from NASA that lets you explore the surface of the earth, moon, and other planets in a similar way to how Google Earth lets you explore the earth.
Celestia
 Program Download: http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/planets/

Educational Resources: http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/educational.php
 This is a free 3D interactive real-time astronomy tool from NASA that lets you explore the solar system in a similar way to how Google Earth lets you explore the earth.
Virtual Electron Scanning Microscope
 Program Download: http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/vlab/

Specimen Files: http://virtual.itg.uiuc.edu/training/

Educational Resources: http://education.ksc.nasa.gov/edtech/vl.htm
 A scanning electron microscope can be used to look close-up at very tiny objects such as insects, computer chips, plants, etc. The VSEM allows students to become the scientists and upload pre-scanned images to explore. (I found out about this at UCET – but haven’t had time to download and try it myself yet.)





B) Explore 1 of the following resources that require you to have special software or hardware. How might you use them for hands-on science.

Tool
 Access
 Description
Kidsperation
 You should be able to download a 30-day free trial version of this software if you want to try it at home.

Download trial version:
http://www.inspiration.com/freetrial/index.cfm

The computers in the MCKB lab (rm 180) have this software installed. The software is also installed on computers that can be checked out for 24 hours from the lab.
 Kidsperation is a popular tool used by K-6 educators. It is a concept mapping tool with many build in educational templates for hands-on science. Many school districts have invested in Kidspiration for their teachers.
Digital Microscope
 We have 2 digital microscopes that can be used in the MCKB lab (rm 180). You will want to check out a tablet PC to use with the microscopes because they have the software for the microscope already installed on them.
 Here is a link to the microscopes that can be checked out.
Temperature Probes
 Temperature probes work with the Logger Pro software and can be checked out from the MCKB lab. The Logger Pro software is installed on all of the lab machines as well as the tablet PCs that can be checked out from the lab to use at home.

You can also request a book from the MCKB lab desk that has instuctions for dozens of experiments that can be done with elementary students using the probes.
 These temperature probes can be a really fun way for students to do hands-on science.

Here are some videos of things that students have done in the past:

http://ipt28x.byu.edu/287/examples/science.html

If requested use the ID: ipt28x and password: ipt28xstudent
Other Science Probes
 same instructions as for the temperature probes.

check out the science project resources document for a list of all the probes you have access to.
 same as above
Global Positioning System
 We have 2 GPS units for checkout. Be sure to request the instruction book too so that you have instructions on how to use the GPS device.
 same as
See more Resources at:
3b. TPACK, Copy Right and Science Resources